Word: standoff
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Both Sherzai and Naqib want to run Kandahar, and there is an edgy standoff among the commanders here. There has been sporadic shooting in the city...
...long, budget - hello economic stimulus package. The 9/11 terror attacks (and subsequent economic nosedive) essentially extinguished Congressional debate over the federal budget, replacing it with an equally frustrating standoff over a stimulus package aimed at jump-starting the nation?s troubled economy...
...withdrawal from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. The timing left some on Capitol Hill grumbling. Why abandon the 30-year-old pact now? The administration insists the logic is simple: The ABM treaty no longer fits into a viable foreign policy - it represents an archaic Cold War standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Current relations between the U.S. and Russia are, in the administration?s words, characterized by a "hope of greater prosperity and peace." The President said as much at a formal declaration in the Rose Garden: "I have concluded the ABM treaty hinders our government...
...showdown left the Iraq standoff mired in a stalemate: UN sanctions could only be lifted once Iraq was certified as having no nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, but such certification was impossible without an unimpeded inspection system. The stalemate worked for Saddam, who was content to allow European and Arab humanitarian concerns over the impact of sanctions to slowly build pressure on the U.S. Even when it tried to revise the embargo with "smart sanctions" designed to target Saddam's weapons programs but ease up on his civilian economy, the Bush administration found little enthusiasm among Saddam's Arab...
...rules, objections from just one country are enough to paralyze decisions. For 10 hours, the gutsy Maran took on the entire WTO until he was assured that the new issues would not be tackled for another two years. Was he intimated by the E.U. and the U.S. during the standoff? "No, I intimidated them!" Maran replied. His brinkmanship undoubtedly heralded a coming-of-age for the developing countries, which make up three-quarters of the WTO?s members. Their impact is expected to grow further with the admission at Doha of China into...